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Karl Oskar Medin

Swedish pediatrian (1847–1927)

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Lived 1847–1927, aged 80Sweden
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    1847–1927
    Aged 80
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Updated 2026-06-24

Karl Oskar Medin was a Swedish pediatrician. He was born at Axberg, Örebro and died in Stockholm. He is most famous for his study of poliomyelitis, a condition sometimes known as the Heine-Medin disease, named after Medin and another physician, Jakob Heine. Medin was the first to describe the epidemic character of infantile paralysis.

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